Rachel Laudan

Thanks Susan, Adam and Paula for the comments on the couscous recipe I posted earlier today.  I’ll return to those later.  First I’ll talk about where this couscous recipe (title as above) comes from. It’s from a manuscript cookbook dated 1817 and compiled in Mexico, probably in San Luis Potosi.  The book was published in [...]

You take two liters of white flour, add to it half a liter of sieved whole wheat/coarsely ground flour, and put it all in a wide tray or kneading trough.  Have a jar of tepid salted water and a sprinkler.  Throw small sprays over the flour and with the hand extended, drag it gently, then [...]

A village on the western fringes of Hampshire is well on the way to becoming the first in England to defy the power of the supermarket by achieving communal self-sufficiency in food. So at least says an article in last week’s Guardian.And to unreflective cheers of joy. And, let me put this politely, it’s complete [...]